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CHAPTER THIRTY SIX
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I didn’t realize when the moment stopped feeling fragile and started feeling permanent. It didn’t arrive all at once.There was no sudden shift, no dramatic turning point, just a quiet certainty settling into me, layer by layer, until nothing inside me expected it to disappear anymore.I drew in a slow breath, not to steady myself, not to prepare just because I could.“I think I get it now,” I said softly.Grayson didn’t rush to respond. He didn’t interrupt or fill the space. He simply looked at me, steady and patient, like he already understood that whatever I was about to say mattered.I turned slightly so I could see him fully. There was no searching in my gaze anymore, no uncertainty, just clarity.“It was never about figuring everything out,” I continued. “I kept thinking I needed to understand it first, define it, make sense of it before I could stay. But that wasn’t it.” I paused, letting the thought settle into words that finally felt honest. “It was about whether I’d stay once
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Leo didn’t pull back after that. If anything, he leaned in just a fraction more, like something invisible between them had finally dissolved and left no reason to keep even the smallest distance.“Don't make it sound like it’s easy,” Leo said, his voice low but steady.Grayson’s brow lifted slightly, not defensive, just curious. “I didn’t.”Leo exhaled through his nose, the corner of his mouth twitching faintly. “Good. Because I don’t want this to be something that just happens. Like it’s out of our hands.”Grayson studied him for a moment, then shook his head. “It doesn’t just happen.”Leo turned his head a little more toward him. “Then what is it?”Grayson didn’t rush the answer. “It’s something you keep choosing, even when nothing is forcing you to. Especially then.”Leo let that sit with him, the words settling deeper than he expected. “So we don’t just get here and stop thinking about it.”“No,” Grayson said quietly. “We just stop questioning whether it’s real.”Leo nodded slow
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Leo didn’t move, but something inside him shifted in a way that felt impossible to ignore. It wasn’t physical. Grayson wouldn’t have been able to point to it but it was there, settling deep in his chest like a truth that had finally decided to stop waiting.“Say it.”The words slipped out before he could stop them. They were quiet, almost fragile in volume, but the weight behind them was anything but.Grayson stilled just slightly, not pulling away, not startled, just aware in that sharp, deliberate way of his.“Say what?” he asked, his voice low and even.Leo swallowed. The hesitation that came this time didn’t feel like fear. It felt like standing at the edge of something that mattered too much to rush.“What this is,” he said, forcing himself not to look away.Grayson held his gaze, unblinking. “You think we don’t already know?”“We do,” Leo admitted. “That’s the problem. We keep acting like we know, but we’re not saying it. And I think I need to hear it.”Grayson’s expression didn
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“Tell me you feel it too,” Leo said quietly, his voice steady but carrying something deeper than curiosity.Grayson didn’t hesitate. “I do.”Leo searched his face, like he needed to see the truth there, not just hear it. “It’s not shifting,” he added, almost like he was testing the words as he said them. “I keep waiting for it to, but it doesn’t.”“It won’t,” Grayson replied simply.Leo let out a slow breath, his shoulders easing just slightly. “You sound so sure.”“I am.”“That’s the part I’m still getting used to,” Leo admitted. “Things don’t usually stay like this. Not for me.”Grayson tilted his head slightly, studying him. “That’s because you didn’t let them.”Leo frowned faintly. “You really think that?”“I know that,” Grayson said, his voice calm, not accusing, just certain. “Every time something started to settle, you pulled back before it could.”Leo looked down briefly, like he was replaying something in his head. “I thought I was protecting it,” he said after a moment. “Or
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“You’re still waiting for it to change, aren’t you?” Grayson’s voice was quiet, but it carried a kind of certainty that made it impossible to brush off.Leo let out a slow breath, his gaze fixed somewhere just past Grayson’s shoulder before it returned to him. “I don’t want to be,” he admitted. “But yeah a part of me keeps expecting something to shift. Like if I relax too much, I’ll miss the moment it all falls apart.”Grayson studied him for a second, not with concern, not even with surprise, just recognition. “That part of you isn’t wrong for existing,” he said. “It just hasn’t caught up yet.”Leo frowned slightly. “Caught up to what?”“To this,” Grayson replied simply, not moving, not loosening his hold, not giving Leo any reason to doubt what he meant.Leo exhaled again, slower this time, like he was letting that settle into him instead of pushing it away. “It’s strange,” he said. “I’ve been in quieter moments than this before, but they always felt temporary. Like they were just
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“It’s not changing,” Leo said quietly, like he was testing the truth of it as he spoke.Grayson turned his head just enough to look at him. “No. It’s not.”Leo let out a slow breath, his shoulders easing without him forcing it. “I keep expecting something to shift anyway. Like if I relax too much, something will step in and break it.”Grayson studied him for a second, not interrupting, just letting the thought finish forming. “That expectation isn’t about this,” he said calmly. “It’s about what you’re used to.”Leo frowned slightly. “Yeah I figured.” He paused, then added, “It’s strange how strong that habit is. Even when there’s nothing actually happening, part of me is still waiting for something to go wrong.”Grayson nodded once. “That’s what happens when interruption becomes normal. You don’t just stop expecting it immediately.”Leo gave a quiet breath that almost turned into a laugh. “That sounds exhausting when you say it out loud.”“It is exhausting,” Grayson said simply.Leo
Satisfying the billionaire (mxm) CHAPTER EIGHTY NINE
Six months later, the house had somehow become even louder.Leo stood in the kitchen early one Saturday morning, holding a mug of coffee that had already gone cold. From the living room came the sound of arguing.Not seriously arguing.Kid arguing.“I was here first!” their son shouted.“You moved
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The first Carter Industries board meeting Leo attended felt like walking into a battlefield wearing a calm expression.Grayson had insisted on driving him.“Emotional support chauffeur,” he’d joked.Leo adjusted his tie as the car stopped in front of the towering glass building.“You know they hate
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Leo’s phone wouldn’t stop vibrating.At first he ignored it. He was halfway through pouring coffee when the buzzing started again then again then again.Notifications.Missed calls.Messages piling up faster than he could read them.Something was wrong.Grayson walked into the kitchen just as L
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The first time Ava said it, it slipped out by accident.“I don’t want to mess this up again.”They were in Leo’s office at the foundation. Late. Papers everywhere. Grant proposals stacked high.Leo looked up.“Again?”Ava froze slightly.She hadn’t meant to say it out loud.Grayson, who had come to
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